Amir is the character that is extremely similar to his father Buba, because they both have committed sins in their past. Amir by, watching Hassan his own half-brother get raped or Buba, having sex with his servant’s wife. In the beginning of the book Amir is a person who won’t stand up for himself let alone for any of his friends. Amir is a very selfish and un-loyal person to Hassan, whereas Hassan is a very loyal and selfless person. Although it all changes when Amir and Buba moves to America some of sins from the past still continue to haunt the future.
As the story begins, Edmond Dantes is introduced as a respectful, devoted, and trustworthy man. He is unjustly sent to prison by resentful enemies. There, he starts his transformation. When he manages to escape, Edmond becomes a more knowledgeable man seeking vengeance to those who betrayed him. Fernand Mondego is Dantes’ rival for the love of Mercedes, the girl Edmond plans to marry.
This downfall started the path of him becoming a tragic hero. The fact that he knows what he did and that he realizes his mistakes is what makes him a tragic hero. He also confessed to his wife, and the court about Abigail, and how he had committed adultery with her. This was the major action that made him become a tragic hero. Atticus is the main character in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Having no intentions of being bound to a woman with no money, Alfred bribed two men to testify falsely in court to free him of his responsibility to Claire. With these testimonies, the court ruled against her. Being falsely condemned to a brothel caused her to lose her youth. The loss of her youth and innocence clearly affected her persona, rendering her immoral and ruthless, thirsting for the death of the man who destroyed her. The “Hamburg brothel”
In addition to the tale's theme of sanity and insanity, Poe acquaints the readers with two others:Guilt and Innocence, and Time being the narrator's true foe, not Death. The Tell-Tale Heart details the story of a seemingly mad individual who kills his friend for no apparent reason other than the fact that he could not deal with the old man's silvery eye. After murdering the old man, the narrator still hears his beating heart from underneath the floor where he buried him. Overcome with guilt, he finally ends up confessing his heinous crime to the police. At first glance, a reader can assume that Poe meant this tale to be a straightforward parable about self-betrayal by one's conscience and guilt.
Though he viewed these illusions by Conchis as jokes, as time when on he would be proved otherwise, as he became a pawn within the ultimate game that Conchis was playing. In Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov is a confused young man that just left college and is unemployed. Thinking of ways to better his situation, he eventually lands on the idea of killing her landlord, Alyona. He views her as a despicable character and is not alone in this view, “Kill her and take her money, so that afterwards with its help you can devote yourself to the services of all mankind and the common cause: what do you think, wouldn’t thousands of good deeds make up for one tiny little crime? For one ife, thousands of lives saved from decay and corruption.
Momentarily afterwards, Chillingworth, Hester’s husband, is seen in the crowd, and introduced. After the public display of Hester, Chillingworth and Hester make a deal, in which her crime of adultery would be forgiven by Chillingworth if she would keep his identity a secret, since he rabidly seeks revenge toward the father of the baby. The rest of the story tells of the interactions between the three. In the end, Dimmesdale dies after confessing his sin, Chillingworth dies in a short period of time after Dimmesdale, and Hester lives on alone helping out the less fortunate of the town. Although Hester made the decision of committing adultery, the reason she lives on is her dealing with the scarlet letter that she is given to exhibit to the town.
When Jamal refuses to take the host’s advice, and gets the answer right, the host is convinced that Prem is cheating and gets him arrested on that account. During his harsh interrogation, Jamal states that each of the questions that he was asked referred to a part of his life from where he learned the answer from. From there on, Jamal shares those moments of his life and how he got the answers. Jamal and Malik were both brothers who live along with a girl named Latika in a slum in the city of Mumbai. They had close to no money.
Everything seems to be in Alex’s favor until his gang grows tired of his tyranny, and decides to trick him, landing him in prison after murdering a widowed cat lady. After serving a partial jail sentence, Alex is let out for what he comes to know as the “Ludovico Technique” which using nauseating drugs and overly violent films, conditions Alex against his violent nature. The novel, which was later adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick, became a controversial subject of debate for many years, as several copycat crimes followed its release. According to fiction writer Joseph Aisenberg; “a woman was raped by assailants performing “Singing In the Rain”; boy gangs marauded around England dressed as the droogs; Arthur Bremmer, who shot George Wallace, reported in his diary having watched the movie and been inspired to get Wallace all through it” (Aisenberg, 3). The existence of violence in the novel is paralleled by an immersion of fine art and culture, but is severely limited due to the narration style of the story.
Feeling neglect and betrayal from god, Silas becomes lonely internally and also becomes depressed. Silas tries to fight against William, but he gives up and allows the authorities to take advantage of him. Silas’s best friend, William Dane, Whom Silas trusted more than anybody else, frames Silas into committing a crime. Authorities charge Silas for a murder using a specific knife. The authorities find the knife in a drawer in Silas’s house.